Example sentences of "who [vb past] [be] [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.
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1 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
2 | Twenty patients who had been taking NSAIDs for more than six months underwent a screening phase and all 13 with NSAID enteropathy were recruited to the study . |
3 | My first contact with Todd , was through a teacher in the program who had been providing catechesis for Todd . |
4 | Another recent item in he BMJ ( vol 284 , p 791 ) , for example , concerned an unhappy lady who had been drinking Dettol for at least 10 years in order to ‘ purify ’ herself . |
5 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main treatment facilities in 1985–6 were daily users of heroin , who had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
6 | Alcalde , who had been awaiting trial for supplying operational information to ETA , had contested the general election from prison ; he was not elected , but on the assassination of Muguruza automatically became his successor . |
7 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |